We're Getting Rid Of Daylight Savings Time
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Yeah, if we don't want to sell to the rest of the world. Easier to be "bilingual" in both systems. If you need to do dimensional calculations, metric is far easier as the physical units automatically turn up in the calculation. No hunting around for conversions between calories and British Thermal Units.
I was told in HS that we needed to learn metric as the USA will change over to that system eventually. That was over 50 years ago.
A lot of it has. Science is overwhelmingly metric. All electrical technology is metric. I can't think of any medical technology that isn't metric (excepting maybe taking of weight and height). Radio technology is metric. The innards of most automobiles are metric to facilitate overseas and out-national production. Anything sold to the world is bound to be dual-dimensioned. Sports are increasingly metric.
You think that's bad? At least you guys have kept weight measurement fairly simple as in you would say "I weigh nnn pounds".
Here in UK we still use the pre-medieval measure of "stones" - there are 14 pounds in a stone. So it is very common to hear someone say "I weigh 14st 7lb" (st=stone, lb=libra=pound)
I had to learn the English engineering system, where the unit of mass is the "slug" (about 32 pounds, or a little over 2 stone) and the unit of force was the pound-force. Or the other English engineering system where the unit of mass is the pound-mass and the unit of force is the poundal. That, with calories and BTUs, made me a convert to SI (mks) metric fairly quickly. Even today, I convert from English units to metric, perform my calculation, and then convert back as needed.
In air and sea travel, I had to learn nautical miles (larger than statute miles) but memorized the conversion (1.852 km). It turns out there was a valid reason to define a nautical mile.